Podcast Episodes

Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 4 Oct, 2021

Episode 558

St Francis of Assisi is the preeminent reminder of just how inexhaustible God’s love is, how far and wide it reaches and how challenging it is to live as a disciple of Jesus. We can only do it with G…

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Homilies: Twenty-seventh Sunday of the Year (B) Oct. 3, 2021

Episode 550

Jesus defended two groups in his society that had no defense. He forbade discarding wives or denying children their right to a place among his followers. There is no toleration in the Reign of God fo…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 3 Oct, 2021

Episode 556

There are two hard stories in today’s Gospel - first that God asks us some things will never b able to realize left entirely our own resources; and that we need to recover the innocence and trust of …

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UCA News Weekly Summary, October 1, 2021

Episode 557

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes.

Extremism remains a threat to minorities in Asian nations as vulnerable communities reel from natural and man-made cala…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 2 Oct, 2021

Episode 555

Angels in Jewish and then consequently Christian though and piety have a simple force and purpose: they are the carriers of God’s presence who come into our experience to prompt our openness to God’s…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 1 Oct, 2021

Episode 554

Although today is the Feast of St. Therese, the Little Flower, there is nothing flowery about the Gospel we have for this feast day. At this stage of Luke’s account of Jesus journey to Jerusalem, Luk…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 30 Sept, 2021

Episode 548

Today is the Feast of St. Jerome to whom we are indebted for several foundational elements in our faith - collecting together what became the the Canon of the New Testament and secondly for translati…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 29 Sept, 2021

Episode 547

Nathaniel is declared by Jesus to be “an Israelite incapable of deceit” or one in whom there is no double dealing. Nathaniel is straightforward, reliable and honest. Nathaniel is astonished at Jesus’…

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Observations: World Mission Month? World Mission Church!

Episode 552

October is World Mission Month, but mission is not just something to think about for a few days out of the year or one among many activities of the Church that other people and groups also do. Missio…

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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 28 Sept, 2021

Episode 546

Today’s Gospel is a further instance showing how far Jesus’ disciples have to go to understand who he is and what his message is. They are trapped tribalism. But as today’s Gospel demonstrates, so ar…

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